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الكوسج

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a type of fish with a saw-like snout, and by extension, refers to someone with missing teeth or a slow-moving horse.

Derived headwords

الكَوْسَجnoun
  1. 1.
    Sawfishboth

    A type of fish characterized by its snout, which resembles a saw.

  2. 2.
    Toothless personclassical

    An individual who is missing teeth.

  3. 3.
    Slow horseclassical

    A horse, particularly a breed of horse, that is slow or sluggish in its movement.

تَكَوسَجَverb
  1. 1.
    To become saw-toothedclassical

    To become like a sawfish, or to develop a saw-like snout.

  2. 2.
    To become toothlessclassical

    To lose one's teeth.

  3. 3.
    To become slowclassical

    To become slow or sluggish, like a slow horse.

Parallel reading

الكوسج، ويضم: م، وسمك خرطومه كالمنشار، والناقص الأسنان، والبطيء من البراذين.
Al-Kawsaj, and it is pronounced with a damma on the kaf: a fish whose snout is like a saw, and one lacking teeth, and the slow one among horses.
وكوسج: صار كوسجا.
And 'kawsaja': he became a kawsaj (i.e., like a sawfish, toothless, or slow).